Decentering the Subject of Physics

Abstract

Orch OR is reviewed with critical attention to the theory's epistemological claims. A modification of the Penrose-Hameroff hypothesis entailing state vector reduction by an eccentrically subjective agency is proposed. Empirically falsifiable implications of the revised model are discussed.

The Historical Aspect of the Development of Quantum Consciousness at the Beginning of the XXI Century

“…Original results obtained in the field of digital imaging and its applications in machine vision systems, industrial robots. Gained global recognition methodologies automatic understanding of images in a monograph published by the prestigious publishing house Springer-Verlag 2004 [91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110].…”

Plotnitsky on Quantum-Theoretical Thinking: Epistemology and Probability

“…There have been many proposals for how subjective cognitive expectations might be realized in neuroquantological "machinery" (Conte, 2010;Craddock and Tuszynski, 2007;Khrennikov, 2008;Mender, 2007;Stapp, 2009). Hameroff and Penrose (1996) nicely term the process "orchestration" and locate it to the microtubules, where they propose orchestrated objective reduction of the wave function occurs.…”

Modes of Dissipation: The Green Episteme and Its Not-So-Green Psychopathologies

“…This might manifest itself (post collapse and not, a la Penrose, pre-collapse) as electromagnetic lensing (Mender, 2008) via a quasi-relativistic, pseudo-gravitational scalar field akin to super-Higgs, inflationary, or dark energy phenomena (Carroll, 2011). The pseudo-gravitons and pseudogravitinos thus generated could be understood by virtue of their a priori synthetic origin with their local supersymmetry comprehended as splayed pluralities attached to agencies of collapse (Mender, 2007) and as commensurate skewing of related intrinsic spin correlations.…”